Muqtada al-Sadr asked a pertinent question: he asked why “doesn’t the burning of the gays’ rainbow flag represent freedom of expression.”
He has a point, but not as much of one as he thinks. The rainbow flag represents the religion of the dominant political and media elites today, and they would indeed be enraged if someone burned it. Such a person would be subjected to immense social opprobrium and could be prosecuted. But it’s the same with burning the Qur’an. The Swedish government did the unexpected when it allowed Rasmus Paludan to burn the Qur’an rather than find some specious “hate speech” pretext to stop him from doing so. But that’s the way things are tending. The Left relentlessly promotes the gay rainbow ideology, and also, at the same time, Islam is the Left’s favorite religion. So both burnings will get you ostracized and demonized as “far right” in the West today. If Muqtada al-Sadr really wants to skewer the West for hypocrisy, he should talk about how no one would care if someone burned a Bible, but burning a Qur’an will get you a condemnation from the UN. But that, of course, is just the opposite of the point Muqtada wants to make.
“Protests against burning of Koran held across Middle East,” NewsChain, January 27, 2023:
Protests have been held in several predominantly Muslim countries to denounce the recent desecration of Islam’s holy book by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands.
The protests in countries including Pakistan, Iraq and Lebanon ended with people dispersing peacefully.
In Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, police officers stopped some demonstrators trying to march towards the Swedish embassy.
In Beirut, about 200 angry protesters burned the flags of Sweden and the Netherlands outside the blue-domed Mohammed Al-Amin mosque in central Martyrs Square.
Earlier this month, a far-right activist from Denmark received permission from police to stage a protest outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Koran, Islam’s holy book.
Days later, Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, tore pages out of a copy of the Koran near the Dutch parliament and stomped on them.
The moves angered millions of Muslims around the world and triggered protests.
Swedish officials have stressed that freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Swedish constitution and gives people extensive rights to express their views publicly, though incitement to violence or hate speech is not allowed….
Iraq’s powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr asked in comments released on Friday whether freedom of speech means offending other people’s beliefs.
He asked why “doesn’t the burning of the gays’ rainbow flag represent freedom of expression”.
The cleric added that burning the Koran “will bring divine anger”.
Hundreds of his supporters gathered outside a mosque in Baghdad waving copies of the Koran.
somehistory says
It may “bring anger” …but the anger is not “divine.”
“The devil, having great anger,”….the god of islm is already angry, but not over the burning of his unholy book of demon filth. The devil is angry because of the “war in heaven” and by the fact his “time” on earth is limited.
The anger that is manifest over the burning of his unholy writings is expressed by the devil’s children and is no where, no how, and in no way, divine.
And, the perversions of intimacy are also demonic, and therefore, those who follow satan in this way, are made angry by any attempt on the part of others to freely express disapproval of their “lifestyle choices.”
Christians are the only group not allowed to be “angry” or have what is considered “holy” protected from destruction.
Hoi Polloi says
General purpose headline:
Enraged Muslims in
[……..]
Violently Protest
[Insert any possible deed, words, thought, or policy that doesn’t grant full enslavement of citizens of the world to muslim men, including enslavement of their own, especially women and children.]
somehistory says
All way to common, Hoi Polloi. If only we could put out a cease and desist order and have mozlums the world over follow it. We could add on that no more rapes, murders and terrorism be committed for their demon god.
Hoi Polloi says
So they’d have to find ways to fill their time. Growing food to feed themselves and starving infidels instead of opium poppies, educating instead of indoctrinating their girls and boys, and the like. Sounds like a plan.
Fitna says
Muslims reminding us of how utterly useless and unneeded they are on our planet. Yet we keep allowing them to grow their numbers, invade our culture and work to replace all the great freedoms and social advancements we’ve made to replace it with 7th century barbarism.
If only our leaders truly loved freedom the way Muslims love their pedophile-warlord ‘prophet’ then we’d end these vermin once and for all. We need Muslims in the world like we need Nazis or global pandemics.
somehistory says
I wish to protest another “burning.”
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/nh-man-due-in-court-after-7-year-old-son-is-burned-beaten-police/2950419/
“Court Docs Reveal Disturbing New Details in Case of 7-Year-Old Who Was Burned, Beaten”
“Murtadah Mohammad, 25, is charged with assault, falsifying evidence and endangering the welfare of a child”
People reports: “Burned, Beaten 7-Year-Old Boy Dies After One Week in Coma, and Father is Arrested”
Hoi Polloi says
Let’s see them protest that, SH.
somehistory says
Hoi, mzlums never would.
The report shows his ugly photo….the little guy was a cute little boy and deserved better…and he’s exactly what one would expect. Evidently, he poured hot water and or oil on the child and claimed it was an accident.
The boy’s mom, who was forced by the court to share custody, had reported his abuse before, but nothing was done.
I hate islam and all that is connected to it.
John ..Smith says
Absolutely horrific Something. And before I even seen your link I was thinking to myself just how many times muslims have burned people alive in the name of islam, and not a word is said about it. Yet someone burns the quran and the entire islamic world erupts. In other words it’s perfectly acceptable for them to burn people to death, but it’s not acceptable for anyone to burn their evil, filthy, satanic book.
somehistory says
Yes, John, It is horrific. And I, also, like you thought of the burning of Christians and others, in their homes, and churches, which reports we read about right here on this site just about every day.
mozlums enjoy burning people alive. Like the pilot they caught some years ago and the people in nigeria and other african countries. They evidently lust to see the torment and pain they can inflict.
John ..Smith says
I have followed you for sometime Somehistory, in fact a long time before you had any idea who I was, I have Known for years that you are on the the side of the Angels. Keep the good work up Somehistory, together we will defeat this evil together we will defeat islam.
somehistory says
Thank you ever so much, John. I do appreciate your comments and I know you are right about the defeat that is coming to all of those who work for evil.
Righteousness will win this fight that has waged for so very long. We just have to keep “fighting the fine fight of the faith” and Jesus will help us to “conquer the evil with the good.” He promised to be with us “all the days.” We can’t lose.
James Lincoln says
I agree with you, somehistory.
It’s just getting so hard to wait….
somehistory says
Yes, James. I feel the same It has to be soon. Has to be.
Hoi Polloi says
So heinous as to merit a slow, painful execution of the sperm donor.
somehistory says
What he did to the little boy, would be justice if done to him. Many severe beatings before the boiling liquid was poured. Most would see that as “evil.”
But we are not the ones to make him **really** know Justice. And that Justice is coming for him and those like him.
James Lincoln says
I’d settle for a firing squad, somehistory.
somehistory says
Make him keep his eyes wide open and the only smoking…set his hair on fire.
Wellington says
“Enraged Muslims” has a redundancy about it in much the same way the term “radical Islam” does.
What a curse Islam has been to the world. Never more so now that Islamic nations, which would have never invented or developed the industrial, communications and military technology the West did, have easy access to said technology and which the Islamic world intends to use to destroy the West.
Compounding all this are all the rubes passing for leaders of the West in our time who have welcomed by the millions Mo’s deluded followers into our midst and all the while maintaining the great lie that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. Tragic beyond all measure. Actually quite criminal too.
James Lincoln says
For some reason, just looking at the picture of these enraged muslim fanatics, I can “smell” the stench of the crowd.
Walter Sieruk says
With this most recent jihadwatch article about the Qu ‘ran burning in the nation of Sweden , it’s therefore very appropriate to reiterate that it’s far better to expose the flaws used in the “logic” to uphold the Qu ‘ran made by the apologists for Islam than to burn the Qu ‘ran.
For example, there’s an old challenge given by many the apologists for Islam to support of their firm belief that the Qu ‘ran is ,truly, Divine.
The challenge they declare is “Try to write a book as beautifully written as the Qu’ ran . you cannot.”
The answer to that claim this that just because a written work of religious literature has beauty in it does not necessary mean that it’s the infallible Word of God.
For there are many highly religious books that are very beautifully written that have been around for centuries but not literally God’s Word.
For example, many of the books that make up the Apocrypha are very well written but they didn’t make into the Bible as God’s word. For instance, the specific apocrypha book of The Song of Three Young Men is a very pious beautifully written religious work of literature but it’s still not the Divine Word of God.
In addition, there have been and are many very intelligent men who read the Qu ‘ran and found it to be overly repetitious, dull inconsistent and even in some places contradictory.
This naturally is in contrast to how all Muslims hear the Qu ‘ran when it is recited. So those two contrasting views of the Qu ‘ran just prove valid the old saying that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
In conclusion, it should be obvious that just because a person finds something in a book that is religious to be also b that he finds to be written doesn’t actually mean it’s Divine.
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Walter Sieruk says
With this latest information revealed by jihadwatch about the irrational rage in the Islamic countries of Pakistan , Lebanon and Iraq about that burning of the Qu’ran Sweden it’s thus very fitting to repeat that a much more intelligent way to handle the subject the Qu -ran than to burn it is to read , study and research the Qu ‘ran to reveal and expose the many errors and contradictions that it contains.
Therefore it had been revealed on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qu‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qu’ran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu ‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Qu ‘ran is truly Divine .”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Qu ‘ran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Qu ‘ran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Qu ‘ran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.”
In addition , in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses.
For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Qu ‘ran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]
James Lincoln says
Just wondering, what percent of the average day does the average muslim spend enraged?
somehistory says
Why don’t you apply for a grant to study that? Grants are given for really stupid *studies*…you could convince them that you wished to prove mozlums were always *unenraged* contrary to popular opinion.
James Lincoln says
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Violet says
I stand firmly with Sweden!